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How have the people living in "jungle" squatter camps around Calais been obtaining food and medicine?
Well, they even had their own 'restaurants'. Not sure how many of these were restaurants but there were "72 illegal commercial spaces" in 'the jungle' at one point, according to MSF. (Also, ...
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Have any countries besides France banned pro-Palestine demonstrations recently?
Apparently Hungary. Although it was described just as a ban on pro-Hamas demonstrations:
October 13
Hungary will not allow any rallies supporting "terrorist organisations," Prime Minister ...
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Does this newly proposed French bill violate or go against the principles of international human right of free speech?
Yes and No.
The law absolutely violates the human right to free speech. And it's designed to do so. It's just that the 'international concept of free speech' isn't the same as 'the right to free ...
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To what extent could India, Pakistan, China, France, and/or the UK individually destroy the U.S. and/or Russia with their nukes if it came to that?
Sounds like your question is two-pronged: 1) Can these powers deliver nuclear weapons to the US/Russia? and 2) Just how destructive are nuclear weapons anyway?
The answer to #1 is in general yes. See ...
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Does this newly proposed French bill violate or go against the principles of international human right of free speech?
Yes, the proposed french law very probably violates article 10 of the European Convention on
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Rights(ECHR). A precedent was set in Baldassi and Others v. France in which France unsuccessfully ...
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To what extent could India, Pakistan, China, France, and/or the UK individually destroy the U.S. and/or Russia with their nukes if it came to that?
The UK posture (and France's) is not about destroying Russia beforehand.
It is to essentially hurt it very badly it in an counterstrike. The UK has 4 Trident subs.
There are four nuclear submarines –...
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Does this newly proposed French bill violate or go against the principles of international human right of free speech?
against the State of Israel
There is nothing great in exactly insulting other states, and some law prohibiting very obvious and blatant insults could be appropriate, but the law should be written in ...
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Does this newly proposed French bill violate or go against the principles of international human right of free speech?
By means of clarification of what "insult" means in French law:
It's not the same as hate speech (provocation à la haine) or as defamation.
An example given (there) is calling someone a &...
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Does this newly proposed French bill violate or go against the principles of international human right of free speech?
You should clarify that you mean by "human rights of free speech". It most certainly does not include freedom to incite violence, or freedom to call to wipe out an entire state (even the one ...
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Does this newly proposed French bill violate or go against the principles of international human right of free speech?
By "International Human Right", I shall assume you are referring to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). It is worth quoting the relevant clauses:
Everyone has the right to ...
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